Curriculum Classes Schedule Fall 2011

College Credit Available

(Courses may be audited by those not requiring college credit, but does not count as a prerequisite.)

Registration for the fall term: August 16, 9:00am—7:00pm Pittsboro Campus 919-542-6495

Semester begins August 19 and ends December 19, (16 weeks total)

Class Descriptions:

Art 283-S01 Ceramics I

This course provides an introduction to three-dimensional design principles using the medium of clay. Emphasis is placed on fundamentals of forming, surface design, glaze application, and firing. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate skills in slab and coil construction, simple wheel forms, glaze technique, and creative expression. This course will focus on centering clay on the wheel and throwing basic forms. This course has been approved to satisfy the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement for transferability as a pre-major and/or elective course requirement.

3 credit hours; meets Mon/Wed. 9:00—11:40am. Clay studio

ART 285 S01 Ceramics III

This course provides the opportunity for advanced self-determined work in sculptural and functional ceramics. Emphasis is placed on developing the technical awareness of clay bodies, slips, engobes, and firing procedures necessary to fulfill the student's artistic goals. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate a knowledge of materials and techniques necessary to successfully create original projects in the clay medium. This course covers the important elements of designing and producing utilitarian pottery such as bowls, mugs, plates, casseroles, stemware, and bottles. This course has been approved to satisfy the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement for transferability as a pre-major and/or elective course requirement.

3 credit hours; meets Mon/Wed., 9:00—11:40am. Clay Studio

PCC 121-S01 Handbuilding I

This course introduces students to the basic hand building processes of creating three-dimensional functional and sculptural vessels in clay. Emphasis is placed on using design elements and principles for the purpose of forming and decorating ceramic vessels. Upon completion students should be able to demonstrate skills in pinch, coil, and slab methods as well as function and creative expression.
Daytime, 3 credit hours; meets Thurs. 9:00am—1:50pm. Clay studio.

PCC125-S01 Clay Casting Prerequisite: PCC 110 or ART 283

This course introduces the different ways of shaping ceramic items, leading to the use of plaster molds and process of “slip- casting”. Topics include model and mold-making, block and case mastermold, gypsum, resins, clay selection, mineral
additives, flocculation, thixotrophy, deflocculation, rheology, specific gravity, and casting rates. Upon completion students should be able to cast in molds, remove, de-seam and clean greenware maintain molds, and layout studios.
2 credit hours; meets Tues., 9:00am—12:50pm. Clay Studio

PCC 132-S01 Glaze Formulation

This course provides an in-depth study of glazes used on pottery.  Emphasis is placed on performing glaze tests, analyzing glazes, mixing a variety of glazes, and correcting glaze faults.  Upon completion, students should be able to  demonstrate an understanding of glaze chemical qualities and formulate new glazes. 

2 credit hours; meets Tue 1:00am—4:50pm.  Clay studio.

PCD 110-S01 Intro to Craft Design

 This course introduces the basic principles, elements, vocabulary, and process of two-dimensional design within the context of professionally produced crafts.  Emphasis is placed on general design concepts and vocabulary, conceptual thinking, design process application, and observational skills.  Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate enhanced observational skills and a working knowledge of design vocabulary, concepts, and processes.

2 credit hours; meets Tue. 8:00 to 11:50am.  Clay Studio.

 

PCD 211-S01 Professional Craft Design (Marketing)

Prerequisite: PCD 110—This course covers the development of customer- or site-influenced design and the development and design of craft marketing promotional materials. Topics include customer-guided, site-specific, and other design influences and development and design of logos, hang tags, web sites, brochures, and related promotional materials. Upon completion, students should be able to design within site, customer, or other limitations and complete a design package for their personal marketing needs.

2 credit hours; meets Tue., 1:30—5:20pm. Sculpture Studio, Siler City Center.

 
PCS 112-S01 Welding for Artists

This course is an introduction to the proper equipment and tools of the metal shop and welding methods for the artist. Topics include welding, cutting, forging, fabricating and finishing, and studio safety. Upon completion, students will be able to demonstrate efficient and safe use of metal shop tools and equipment.

3 credit hours; meets Mon., Wed., 1:00—3:20pm. Metals studio, Siler City Center.

For information call 919-742-4156 or email smartin@cccc.edu

Visiting Artist Joseph Sand

Once a year we invite a guest artist from the surrounding community to show in our gallery in order to expose students to varied styles and media, which helps fulfill the mission of the gallery. Beginning on July 15 (Downtown Art Walk, 6:00 to 9:00pm) our visiting artist will be potter, Joseph Sand.

Joseph (b. 1982, Austin, MN) trained as a sculptor at the University of Minnesota, received a B.F.A. in 2006. During his undergraduate courses, he studied for one year in Italy, followed by another year in England, after receiving a very competitive, college-wide scholarship. While in England, he worked alongside many prolific potters, including Svend Bayer and Clive Bowen, which heavily influenced his direction as an artist, taking up functional pottery as a means of personal expression. He completed a three-year apprenticeship with Mark Hewitt in 2009. While finishing his apprenticeship at Hewitt Pottery, Joseph was featured in Craft in America. He now resides in Randleman, North Carolina. His work combines the styles of traditional, Southern alkaline glazeware and East Asian design, among others. Using a wood-fired kiln, both salt- and ash-glazed wares are produced.

“I aspire to create items that will adorn people’s homes that they can enjoy, whether they use it or just appreciate it as a piece of art. Bringing people happiness through my work plays a central role in my artistic endeavor. Currently, I am focusing my efforts on making utilitarian ware along with larger, decorative items. I select local clay that I know will react well and glazes that will be enhanced by slips to create beautiful patterns in a salt-fired atmosphere. Special attention is paid to the placement of pieces throughout the kiln to achieve the desired results. By carrying on a tradition created by Bernard Leach, passed down to Michael Cardew, and then to Mark Hewitt, who has shared it with me, I am looking at the past, adding all the skills and ideas I’ve been taught, creating something new and interesting, of beauty and vibrancy.

“Currently, I am working on a series of new glazes showing an array of colors and texture that will enhance the pottery forms that I make. Utilizing my newly created test glaze kiln, which was partly funded using a grant that I received from the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro, I have tested numerous glazes in search of those select few that really make my pots exemplary.”

Joseph Sand Pottery property near Randleman, North Carolina is now up and running, and Joseph is making functional and sculptural pottery full-time. Most recently, Joseph was a recipient of the Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artist Award through the Durham Arts Council, which provided funding towards the construction of his kiln. Kiln opening sales are held three times each year, typically in April, August, and December. Otherwise, the pottery is open by appointment only.

The CCCC student gallery is open for the Third Friday Art Walk in conjunction with the North Carolina Arts Incubator from 6:00 to 9:00pm—other times: Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 9:30am to 4:00 pm. 138 North Chatham Avenue, Siler City, North Carolina 27344